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Cooperative Economy: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Mario Hébert,

D

irector

Public

Affairs

, Fondaction CSN

Delta

Beauséjour

, Moncton, N.B.,

February

29, 2012

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PlanBrief Return On The CRISISWays For

Cooperatives

The 12

Labors

of COOP Hercules

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Brief Return on the CRISISMultiple Facets

Financial and

Economic

Ecology

FoodClimateGovernance

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Even Davos Has Doubt

on

Capitalism

…

The Model

will Die Out if there is no

R

eform

.«If we do not act quickly, when we meet here [at Davos] in three or four years, the type of capitalism that many of us have known and that we believed to be the best form of capitalism, has lived».David M. Rubenstein, co-director, Carlyle Investment GroupThursday, january 26, 2012

Brief

Return on

t

he CRISIS

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Ways for CooperativesRethinking FinanceReducing

inequalities

Jump on the SD

Bandwagon

« Responsible » buying and consumption Promoting

another

governance

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Socially

Responsible

Finance

Re-connecting Finance to Real Economy

Targeting

Reasonable Yields – Mid-to-Long TermTransparency in Governance/ Salaries and BonusesBE AUDACIOUS and GIVE SENSE TO MONEY Rethinking F

inanceRegulating Financial Sector!Stop Focus on short term yields

Back to the basics

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Most Important Risk Faced by DemocraciesBetter

Wealth

Distribution

Accesible

Education and Training Programs

Reinvent

Welfare StateSyndicalism et Social / Communauty ActivismCooperatives Values and Principles

Re-balancing « Liberty - Equality - Fraternity »

Reducing

I

nequalities

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Rethinking Growth« Brown » Economy = NO« Green » Economy

= YES

Cooperatives

and

SD

Pioneer :

Fair

Trade, Organic Food, Renewable Energy, « Soft » Transportation, Solidarity Tourism, Open Source, ie.

But «Where’s Charlie» of SD; Where’s Environment?

Jump on the SD

Bandwagon

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From Looking to Being « Most Important Challenge Ever Face » (T. Jackson)

Rethinking

our

Relation to

Objects

Intervene

on Social,

Psychological and Material AspectsEducate, Informe, SensibilizeWalk the Talk

«Responsible» Consuming

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«Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfactions, our ego satisfactions, in consumption… The greater the pressures upon the individual to conform to safe and accepted social standards, the more does he tend to express his aspirations and his individuality in terms of what he wears, drives, eats- his home, his car, his pattern of food serving, his hobbies. .»

Victor

Lebow

, "The Real Meaning of Consumer

Demand“ (1955)

«

Responsible

»

Consuming

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Take Advantage of DemographyIssue of Business SuccessionRight at

the

Heart

of the

Beast

Workers

Coops

and WCS

New Business ModelEmployee Becomes OwnerParticipatory ManagementPromoting Another Governance

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12 Labours of COOP HerculesService general interestDevelop

a speech on

economy

Present

ourselve as an alternative to the dominant model.et. Plural Economy or Entrepreneurship Biodiversity

1.Society

Project

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No alternative without an alternative theoryRediscover Proudhon, Gide, Desroches et VianneyMultidisciplanary

a

cademic

research

with partnership between enterprises and universities

2.

Theorical

framework

12 Labours of COOP Hercules

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Be careful of the Iron-Cage syndrom or institutional

isomorphism

Be

different

in developing our own standards

3

. COOP

Modus

operandi

« 

Insanity: doing the

same thing

over and over again and expecting different results

 »

(Albert Einstein)

12 Labours of COOP Hercules

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Economy + social = COOPEconomy + social + environment = SDWaiting

for the 8th

cooperative

principle

?

4. SD

Carrier

12 Labours of COOP Hercules

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Develop credible speakersHaving something original to say

Position

coop

movement on the major challenges facing societyMastering the medias

5.Mastering

The art of

communication

12 Labours of COOP Hercules

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Understand and master these new communication toolsExploit the opportunities

created

by social medias

Step

in open source softwares

6. Web 2.0

and

social medias

12 Labours of COOP Hercules

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Bring together the dispersedUnderstand and practice real networking Create alliancesBe welcoming

and

respectful

of

diversity

Give meaning

7.

Sparsa

Colligo

*

12 Labours of COOP Hercules

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Stop playing ostrichElaborate a political programSubmit

it

to

political

partiesPromote it

8.

Taming

politics

12 Labours of COOP Hercules

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Gen X, Y, (Z) : three visions and three realitiesCreate an

intergenerational

dynamic

Involve

youths at all levels (orientation as well as decision)

9.

Make

way

for

youths

12 Labours of COOP Hercules

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To differentiate coopsMake it a real proofBe open to

critics

and

adapt

permanentlyNever be paralysed by perfection

10.

Walk

the talk12 Labours of COOP Hercules

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We can change the worldOn a volontary basisWithout

dogmatism

Being

respectful

of diversity

11.

Believe

in12 Labours of COOP Hercules

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When a system is not able to solve the problems that he met with, it has to metamorphose itself to a richer systemHow this metamorphosis operates? "You can never predict. The improbable often happens in history. Try to have a little faith in the improbable, but also try to act in his favor". Edgar Morin

12. black

Swan

syndrom

12 Labours of COOP Hercules

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ConclusionNe doutons jamais qu’un petit groupe d’individus conscients et engagés puissent changer le monde. C’est même de cette manière que cela s’est toujours produit. Margaret MeadCaminante no

hay

camino

, se

hace el camino al andarAntonio Machado(“Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.” )